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@BladeRunner is a good dude and most of the time makes excellent, thoughtful arguments (most of them I disagree with but that’s besides the point.)
Totally not surprising. Emperors get upset when the all of a sudden they have no clothes.
How many black public schools has BLM improved?
Black Lives Matter has nothing to do with public schooling- that’s not their focus.
I would just clarify, i wouldnt say there is corruption in the "movement" but the organization is obviously doing some shady stuff which is shameful and frustrating as it only sets the movement back. Even so, im still quite satisfied with the accomplishments from the movement thus far.
I'm reasonably sure that this is an 'opinion' not shared by many in this country.
I'll bet everywhere they stayed and camped out either votes in a more moderate Dem or flips red. That's probably easy to verify. Have fun verifying it for me, because I don't care enough.
I think quibbling over the hyperbolic use of "nobody" vs. "the majority of people" is silly and a waste of time. You know what the general point is. Make the most of it.
I normally don't do this but...did a child write that article? What the hell? I honestly can't figure out what they are trying to say in most of that piece.
Every article is credited to "PressRoom" and it appears they are mostly poorly paraphrased copies of FoxNews. The grammar is atrocious. Maybe it's an ESL algorithm.
Did the study say 93% of protests were peaceful or 93% of protesters were peaceful? Both of those seem like they could be accurate. There were lots of small, uneventful protests. Even in these videos showing destruction, I see mobs of people and only a small percentage are actively causing destruction. However, it was well known from the start that the "peaceful protests" were the distraction that allowed for the looting and destruction so the peaceful protesters bear a share of the responsibility. It was a party and social media photo shoot for many of them. They weren't causing destruction but didn't care that others were. Some people even rationalized the looting and destruction as a sort of justice.
Every protest where i live or that i attended was peaceful.
But hey I’ll let the folks who never went to a protest tell it.
True, I'm making judgments based upon what I read or saw in videos. Were your protests in small towns or large cities? My understanding is that the looting and destruction happened in the large cities, whereas smaller towns didn't usually experience those problems.Every protest where i live or that i attended was peaceful.
This smacks of the “ I went to the farmers market in Portland this morning and didn’t see any problems , so you all are full of #### “ nonsense that we read here beforeEvery protest where i live or that i attended was peaceful.
It’s no different than those saying they say a riot on tv so all protests were violent.
i posted studies up thread saying they mostly weren’t. But again I’ll leave it to you tv watchers to call it.
It’s no different than those saying they say a riot on tv so all protests were violent.
im curious though. Every sports parade that occurs do you refer to those as riots also?
sure, except no one has said all protests were violent
I'm confident in saying that the majority of protesters and protests in and around the three weeks of Chaz/Chop were peaceful. Purely playing a numbers game. But lets look at the results:It’s no different than those saying they say a riot on tv so all protests were violent.
im curious though. Every sports parade that occurs do you refer to those as riots also?
Who knew rock and BR were descendants of Nostradamus?
sure, except no one has said all protests were violent
I know lots of people who marched in the protests in 2020, including my own two daughters. I continue to have lots of friends, business acquaintances, tenants, involved with the Black Lives Matter movement. A couple of my tenants very proudly have the BLM sign on their retail windows.
I’m sorry Blade but almost everything in this post is false:
YOU said 'nobody'. I merely pointed out that that wasn't accurate-it's also not remotely verifiable.. I didn't get into any minutiae of anything @BladeRunner.
That’s an educated guess based on the facts that (a) they only show up in big cities and (b) when they do show up it’s usually less than 10 people, never more than 20. We really don’t know what their numbers are; they don’t advertise. It is also extremely likely that some folks dress in in black clothing and masks and behave like Antifa but aren’t affiliated with any organization. There is no centralized organization (which makes sense because they’re anarchists!)
An educated guess. But if you want me to admit that I can’t back that part up, fine. I don’t want to have this sort of ticky tack argument with you or anyone else, I don’t think it serves any purpose. If you disagree with anything I wrote, then please tell me the exact nature of your disagreement and reason for it. But let’s not try to catch each other out. It’s boring.
I dont have any interest. I just picked the most obvious and instead of facts you tried to explain how your thought process works. That's not backing things up with facts.
A protest organized by co-founder Patrisse Cullors, after they took over Bernie Sanders stage, encouraged violence by shouting among other things "burn everything down".
Tim doesn't want to talk facts. He "just knows," but don't ask him to back it up. He can back up EVERYTHING he says...until he can't.
So it's a statistical anomaly that in these cases it just so happens all these unaffiliated thugs show up? It's not like there's a BLM membership card these guys carry around with them. Just like Antifa, there's no membership roster. So how many members there are, who they are, who is to say?
